American Gandhi traces the evolving political and religious views of one of the most beloved figures of the American left. Through A. J. Muste's exemplary career as a peace activist and radical, Leilah Danielson charts the rise and fall of American liberalism and the left over the course of the twentieth century.

American GandhiA. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century

Leilah Danielson

Chapter 1. Calvinism, Class, and the Making of a Modern RadicalChapter 2. Spirituality and ModernityChapter 3. Pragmatism and "Transcendent Vision"Chapter 4. Muste, Workers' Education, and Labor's Culture War in the 1920sChapter 5. Labor ActionChapter 6. Americanizing Marx and LeninChapter 7. To the LeftChapter 8. Muste and the Origins of Nonviolence in the United StatesChapter 9. Conscience Against the Wartime State and the BombChapter 10. Speaking Truth to PowerChapter 11. Muste and the Search for a "Third Way"Chapter 12. The "American Gandhi" and Vietnam